Child-Centered Humanitarian Assistance

The Child-Centered Humanitarian Assistance intervention prioritizes and addresses basic humanitarian needs of children and affected families, such as food, non-food items, and WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) with a specific focus on personal hygiene for women and adolescent girls, during and post disasters. Child-Centered Spaces (CCS) is an important part of this intervention, which provides safe spaces for children during and after a disaster. CCS conducts age-appropriate child-friendly activities to help restore normalcy among disaster-affected children and provides psychosocial first aid, especially to children who go through psychosocial distress. Post a disaster, Child-Centered Humanitarian Assistance also helps children to continue their education by providing educational materials such as stationery, school bags, umbrella, and water bottles. In the aftermath of cyclone FANI in Odisha in 2019, ChildFund India supported 445 children to access structured play and educational services from CCS. Individual educational kits were provided to 250 school-going children to help them in continuing education. Non-food items kits were also provided to 6360 households, benefitting a population of 28,712 including 9461 children.